Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...

Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, US. He published Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West ...

In this impassioned opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman protests the campaign to impeach MK Ayman Odeh, instigated by the Israeli right and thus far supported by much of the liberal centre ...

Chaim Gans is a political philosopher and Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience (Cambridge University Press, 1992), The Limits ...

There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...

Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom and editor of Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays (Routledge 2023) Originally published on 9 October, two days after the 7 ...

Ronnie Fraser tells the little-known story of the British Labour Party’s support for Zionism. Three months before the Balfour Declaration, its War Aims Memorandum made clear that 'The British Labour ...

A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...

‘When Iran says “death to Israel”, it means precisely what we saw on 7 October’ | An Interview with Behnam Ben Taleblu ...

Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, he asks, do we honour and preserve history, in the 21st century? Yom HaSho ...

Calev Ben-Dor: Can you share some memories from the period surrounding the 1967 Six-Day War? Yossi Klein Halevi: My most primal memory was in the latter part of May 1967, watching the news with my ...

Few individuals have had more impact on the history of the state of Israel than its former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died on 11 January 2014 after being in a coma since 2006. To assess his ...